American and British Literature Analysis

Part 1 Melusine the Snake Goddess Chapter 2 Into the Garden, Melusine! The Tale in Byatt's Possession Chapter 3 The Aquatic Great Goddess Chapter 4 The Ophidian Goddess in Gylanic Times Part 5 Love and the Holy Marriage Chapter 6 The Meeting and Marriage of Melusine and Raimondin Chapter 7 Keats' Lamia in the CEvennes…

The decolorization and mineralization of an azo dye, brilliant golden yellow (BGY, i¬max416 nm, i¥ = 7.81 x 103 Lmol-1 cm-1) by Fenton and photo-Fenton processes were investigated. The rate of decolorization is strongly dependent on the pH, initial concentrations of the dye, Fe(II) and H2O2. The effect of these para…

• MERYEM AYAN

This essay explores the mythic Medusa archetype, used as a symbol of female psychic power in the writings of Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, Iris Murdoch, and Sylvia Plath.

• GILLIAN MARY ELIZABETH ALBAN

When asked by an interviewer to define her key themes in The PowerBook, Jeanette Winterson replied “Oh, boundaries, desire, time, identity.”1 As most critics agree, Winterson reworks the themes tha...

• MİNE ÖZYURT KILIÇ

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• HALİT ALKAN

This paper explores how Istanbul fantasies in A. S. Byatt’s “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” (1994) function as a critique of British patriarchal constructions of femininity. In Orientalism Postmodernism and Globalism, Bryan Turner argues that “the Orient in Western imagination is often perceived as the fantastic,…

• AYŞE NAZ BULAMUR BAYPINAR

John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939, depicts the poverty of 1930s America during the “Great Depression” through the tragedy of the Joad family, who lost their home and land in Oklahoma and have to drive to California in the hope of finding employment and plenty like many other farmers. The no…

• LEVENT YILMAZOK

Regarding the eighteenth-century sentimental novel, critics have long argued that sentiment works to bond subjects and to accommodate subjects to society. The sentimental novel also teaches the reader how to die. Looking to Sarah Fielding’s The Adventures of David Simple (1744, 1753) and Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of F…

• JONATHAN COLEMAN WILLIAMS

This paper examines two opposing views in terms of the construction of identity in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. First, Joyce sees the complex sense of historical forces, social institutions, culture, religion and politics as influencing both the perception and behaviors of individuals in the…

• ALİ GÜNEŞ

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• İBRAHİM GÜLTEKİN

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D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) is an English writer and poet of the 20th century. He wrote many novels, short stories, and poems reflecting human psychology. His short story “The Rocking-Horse Winner” is an autobiographical work delineating the mother-son and father-son relationships with reference to the Freudian theory…

• ÖZGÜ ŞEKER